The present thesis aims to analyse the divine-human relationship in Paul's theology, focusing on Paul's portrayal of the relationship in Romans 1-8. The issue of the divine-human relationship has been treated by multiple Pauline studies with various foci, for instance, the issues of agency, the apocalyptic character of Paul's gospel, the concept of charis, and the covenantal relationship. Nevertheless, these approaches often do not pay sufficient attention to the fact that the divine-human relationship in Romans is not static but exhibits progression and development towards a goal. As a result of this, such studies cannot effectively address the significance of the human agent's role in the relationship, a role which changes at each stage of the relationship's development. In order to offer a different perspective, the present thesis utilises a social psychological theory, namely, interdependence theory (IT). IT offers a consistent analytic framework for diagnosing the interactions in a dyadic relationship in terms of the dependency created by each partner's expectations of outcomes. By deploying IT, we explore several key stages of the divine-human relationship and the direction in which the relationship develops throughout Romans 1-8 in order to highlight the significance of the human partners in the course of the development. The key stages include: betrayal (1.18-3.20), restoration (3.21-26; 5.1-11), the oppressive relationship with Sin (5.12-8.11), and the investment for the future (8.12-39). From our investigation, we conclude that although the foundation of the relationship rests on God's initiative, the divine outworking guides the relationship so that it facilitates mutual participation of the human partners in the restoration and development of the relationship toward the ultimate goal. Another contribution of the present study can be found in our attempt to introduce IT to the field of NT studies through our methodological considerations.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-03-07T14:21:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) HISTÓRIAS DE VIDA DE DOCENTES QUE SE TORNARAM SINDICALISTAS.pdf: 2843234 bytes, checksum: 20e2675064fc05d352272bf3af0bc03a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-07T14:21:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) HISTÓRIAS DE VIDA DE DOCENTES QUE SE TORNARAM SINDICALISTAS.pdf: 2843234 bytes, checksum: 20e2675064fc05d352272bf3af0bc03a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-22 / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender como determinadas pessoas construíram sua individualidade pelo desenvolvimento de um autocontrole instintivo e consciente. Em face da continuidade dessa construção, relacionaram-se e exerceram funções num sindicato docente (SINTEPE), contribuindo assim, para sua educação sindical, resultando, destarte, em mudanças de comportamento. O estudo trata das histórias de duas pessoas que se formaram professores e que na década de 80 do século passado se articularam no movimento docente, tendo esse grupo de indivíduos se filiado, posteriormente, a uma representação sindical, em 1990. No entanto, mediante essas relações de interdependência e funções exercidas em meio aos sindicalistas do SINTEPE, por condicionamento e compulsão, os indivíduos desta pesquisa interiorizam novos hábitos entre si, refletindo a partir deles os novos comportamentos sociais, as características da representação dessa entidade. Sinalizando, com isso, para uma perspectiva de uma educação informal. Para fundamentar este estudo, sustentome nos parâmetros metodológicos, no campo educacional, por uma abordagem historiográfica, fundamentada na teoria da História Nova, de Jacques Le Goff (1990), estruturada pelo método de história oral temática. Esta metodologia se apoia nas memórias desses indivíduos, mediante processo de coleta de dados por instrumento de entrevistas semiestruturadas, em que buscamos uma análise dos mesmos, em face ao aporte teórico de Nobert Elias (1970; 1994; 1998; 2011), tendo como primazia a valorização da oralidade, mas não desconsiderando a necessidade do diálogo entre outras fontes documentais em que esse processo analítico se apoiou, referenciado no procedimento de análise, segundo Kohl (2012). Consequentemente, alcançamos os resultados dos objetivos desta pesquisa. Primeiramente, a partir dos docentes sindicalistas entrevistados por terem apresentado a formação de suas individualidades a partir de aspectos sólidos e amadurecidos, para um autocontrole psíquico adulto. Em seguida, desdobraram relações de interdependência no seio do movimento sindical docente, mediante diversos níveis e formas, prevalecendo às características da função e do poder, latentes nestes processos relacionais. Por fim, através dessas experiências de relações figuraram para uma educação informal, embora articulada, também, pela modalidade educativa formal já existente, a partir da formação política do SINTEPE, onde, destarte, os docentes sindicalistas entrevistados apresentaram terem tido mudanças de hábitos mediante compulsão coletiva, no período em que passaram a interagir neste grupo social. / This work focuses on understanding how some people were able to build up their individuality by developing na instinctive and conscious self-control. This development took place in the Teacher`s Union where these people worked together and started some relationship, improved their Union education resulting in behavioral changes. The research is about two persons Who graduated teachers and on the 80`s were part of a teaching movement. Later, they were affiliated to Union representation. However, through these interdependence relationships and their work with Union staff, by compulsion and conditioning, they internalized new habits each other as well as a new social behavior. This fact created na informal education perspective. In order to support the study, I use methodological parameters in the educational field by a historiographical approach, based on the theory of New History, Jacques Le Goff (1990), and structured by the thematic oral history method. This methodology is based on the memories of these individuals through data collection process by means of semi-structured interviews, in which we seek an analysis thereof, by the theoretical framework of Nobert Elias (1970; 1994; 1998; 2011). We excel for the valuation of orality, but not disregarding the need for dialogue between other resources in which this analytical process is supported and referenced in the analysis procedure, according to Kohl (2012). Some results were reached out. Firstly, the union teachers presented formation of their individuality from solid and mature aspects. Secondly, they deployed interdependencies within the teacher trade union movement, through various levels and forms, prevailing the characteristics of the function and power, visible in these relational processes. Finally, these relationship experiences resulted in informal education, although articulated also by a previous formal educational modality, from the political formation of SINTEPE, where respondents union teachers had changes in habits by collective compulsion, in the period they began to interact in this social group.